Thread: The 7.0 Graphical update preview is an objective failure

Originally Posted by Embran

I am referencing Yoshida's JP fanfest quote where the free fantasia was announced, which is more recent by over two years.

This is the problem with throwing the word "objective" around like this.

My use of 'objective' earlier was objectively correct (ha), as I was using facts to make my point

Anyway, so the free Fantasia was after the two quotes from OP happened? Likely meaning that they somehow couldn't prevent parts of the models from looking different after working on the update for those two years, so they were trying to appease people ahead of time- that's very interesting

Originally Posted by Embran

Anyway, yeah. The faces got 60 new bones, which are mostly found in the eyes and mouths. I have no doubt it's to make them more expressive in the cutscenes, and it's also likely why they got hit the hardest. They had to redo them instead of just "painting over them," so to speak.

That's a good point- one that I forgot about.

It's possible that could be responsible for a lot of the "physical" form changes, as it were, since facial rigging is very, very complicated (so much so that I use tricks to bypass it entirely in my own works)

Originally Posted by sahroo

This I didn't know. Where did you learn about it?

TLR
>Smart FFXIV Modder looks inside Benchmark
>More face bones